ENTREAT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of entreat in English

(Definition of entreat from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of entreat

entreat
For example, people were entreated to do as they were told.
Accordingly, the traditional limits of the ' ' political questions ' ' doctrine are rejected, while courts are entreated to advance group rights and multiculturalism by undermining established notions of sovereignty and citizenship.
I entreat him to raise the tone of the debate, because we can have a good one that is based on the facts.
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I entreat this and future governments to leave the new set-up for at least 50 years.
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I entreat them not to persist in their present attitude.
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I entreat him not to leave it too late.
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Employers have been abjectly entreated to allow their men to go, and in certain cases half-crowns have been offered.
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I therefore really entreat you to inform yourselves on this issue.
I entreat him to give his earnest consideration to this problem.
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Three times he has entreated me to listen and to consider and reflect on an amendment.
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We have entreated them to take certain action.
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I entreat you to think well of this matter.
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I have entreated him on many occasions to take it.
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I really entreat them not to throw away in a moment of impatience the fruits of the victory which their brothers and their sons have done so much to win.
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Let us therefore urgently entreat those countries which have not ratified these conventions on national minorities to see to it that this is done straight away.
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Translations of entreat

in Chinese (Traditional)
懇求, 乞求, 請求…
in Chinese (Simplified)
恳求, 乞求, 请求…
in Spanish
suplicar…
in Portuguese
suplicar…
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in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
yalvarmak, iknaya çabalamak, rica etmek…
supplier…
smeken…
prosit…
bede, trygle, bønfalde…
mengimbau…
อ้อนวอน…
khẩn khoản…
błagać, usilnie prosić…
bönfalla, enträget be…
merayu…
dringend bitten…
bønnfalle, be innstendig (om)…
благати, прохати…
умолять…
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